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Damn, how did you know. Are you reading my mind?

That is a low altitude low airspeed parachute developed by H. O . Bucker in 1976 and has only three suspension lines.

A tertiary reserve is simply just another reserve parachute that you would wear on the front of your harness.

Most Manufacturers have their own way to label a harness and container size. Depending on what type of canopy the 190 is as well will vary the packing size and which container it can fit into. An easy resource for the canopy pack volumes is from the PIA canopy volume chart:http://www.pia.com/piapubs/TSDocuments/ts104-13%20Canopy%20volume%20study_1995.pdf Or Jumpshacks volume charts: http://www.jumpshack.com/Read/Tech/canopy_volume_chart.htm Once you know what size it is, then you can start comparing what it should fit into. Here are a couple of manufacturer's sizing. Sunpath's sizing: http://www.sunpath.com/stock.htm Rigging Innovations: http://www.rigginginnovations.com/earlymodels.htm Relative Workshop: http://www.relativeworkshop.com/saldoc_sizing.html Jumpshack just uses the cubic inches for there reserve and main sizing. If you go onto the manufacturers webpage of the gear you're looking, most of the information will be there. There is a couple that don't have the information on there, but to find out all it takes is an email. Hope this helps.

If the system is going to have individual riser releases like the original system, they don't work the best for the system. It makes it clean and easier to setup but complicates the system when whether you snap it on or set it up while on, there is still the same amount of prep work required for it. So from my perspective it doesn't speed up any process. This is just my $0.02.

The container is attached to the bridle as it is also the dbag for the canopy, so it just is like any other parachute.

The original system has two sets of rings on the MLW. The risers themselves had individual cutaways, but that has since been changed. The entire front mount container/d-bag releases from the front you you and there is nothing there after the canopy has been deployed. It is not like a traditional belly mount where it would still be an empty container after the parachute has been deployed.

If the system is going to use the same deployment method that is on Curtis' system and not the newer one that we came up with, I don't see any reason that you would need to be able to switch the handles from inward to outward pull. The whole system releases from a single point on the front and you are still able to grab each handle. With the new improvements to the old system we were going to put a single handle to release the bag and risers but could never come up with a reason why it would be needed.

Those extra rings are most likely for a tertiary main. He really liked the setup that my friend came up with for jumping some vintage canopies and doing intentional cutaways. He said that he wanted to copy the design of it at least. It is actually a interesting system where the container for the third parachute is the deployment bag as well and the whole system is released from the pilot chute via a four point cable release. Also, you end up deploying on your back and watching the entire opening sequence. I think I have some pictures and diagrams of the original system somewhere.

For me it is if you are knocked unconscious. For me, I woke up with my right arm ripped open and blood running down it.

I found out some information about this canopy. I got a hold of the manufacturer and the translated name is Golden Eagle. They said it is strange looking, LOL, and that is has a really soft opening. The one in the picture is an experimental model that was never really produced. It was made to be more stable for accuracy than the Para-Foil. They said that it was pretty promising for that. That is all the information I got about it. The information that they gave was in pretty bad english so I wasn't able to make sense of all of it. Unfortunately, for those gear collectors out there, what you see in the picture is pretty much all there was made.

You can also email PD, they had a free DVD that Scott Miller made to teach people how to pro pack. It is really informative for someone who is learning. Also, Sid's rigging has a packing guide available at the url below: http://www.cafepress.com/sidspecialties.5768447

A couple of years ago I came across a Talon 2 that was dyed by the owner. When I contacted Sandy Ried about it he essentially told me that the rigs TSO was not valid anymore because of the dye job. Like the others said, it shouldn't be touched. Cheers, Jim

I have done that and it is a very fun exit. Any moisture on the leading edge in the morning makes it very hard to hang for any length of time. It is surreal looking into the plane and being that far away. Now if you want to see a really fun exit try climbing underneath and up the other side of the plane. It is hard but not impossible. It messy with your head a little bit since everything is reversed. The pictures don't have anything done to them for the non believers. I own a racer and for the people that know racers you can't get a pillow handle for the reserve and you can clearly see my orange cutaway on the proper side. It took me a long time to figure out a way to do it with just using my hands and legs.

As much as skydiving is a major part in our lives other priorities come up. Just as many of us find it important to skydive it is also important to live. Unfortunately, that might mean taking a break from skydiving. I had to take a break for about a year. Learning to walk normally from an nonskydiving related incident. It sucks, but it doesn't do any good to be even more busted up. If skydiving is something in you, returning to the sport should be hard. Probably more exciting than anything else. At least that is how it was with me. There are many things that you can do to keep involved in the sport without having to jump. Doing that will make any return easier.

I don't think that there ever was a Delta I. The Delta II was formed from work that Steve Snyder did with the Irvin Eagle to fix the hard opening problem it had. That photo that Dave posted could have been a Hawk. The parawing in the photo doesn't show any louvers in the skin or at least they aren't easy to see. Being from 1966 would put it in the time frame of the Hawk and Eagle models. More information is on page 259 of Poynters Manual Vol. 1

This company makes an altimeter mount like you described. http://www.cloudflyer.com/ Cheers, Jim

I second that and they are so quiet as well. Of all the rigs I have and the ones I have jumped, I keep going to the PC more than the others.

I have picked up some things for a ridiculously cheap amount. I picked up a brand new piggy from 75 that has never been jumped for $50. And was given canopies and gear for next to nothing. Then there are somethings that I am willing to pay more for just because I want them not because they are worth it. If you only want to jump several times on some vintage gear, just find someone that will let you jump theirs. I haven't met too many people that wouldn't train and let you jump their gear.

A friend of mine has a 155 that he loves. No problems with it in any aspect. The same issues came up when he was buying his. It was far too cheap to not to buy it. Maybe he got lucky with the openings as they have always been soft for him. With all the other canopies out there go for a newly designed canopy unless it is priced too good to pass up. Then you could at least make your money back on it if it doesn't work out for you.

***That means if you attempt to activate once, fail, and try again, you are possibly down in this range. Are you saying this is too low too? *** I am not trying to run through every possible situation and am not going to even waste the time with the possibilities. However, I do know some people that would quite possibly be alive today if they would went for their reserve instead of had a main streamer behind them when they bounced. Do what ever your training tells you I am not trying to rewrite the book but when you have a slow opening main that opens in around 1000 ft. I don't think you should be going for it if you are past your hard deck.

I don't believe that anyone should be throwing out there main at an altitude of 1000-1500 feet. If someone would be doing this they would be better off with an AAD. This is the type of thing that has caused deaths before. People go low and instead of going for plan b which they are trained to do at this altitude people go for their main, which might I add they pack for a nice slow and soft opening. This results in a very bad scenario. I am not trying to attack your post as I agree with it but this one part I do not agree with. With the AAD's today becoming more and more advanced from the ones of yesteryear. There aren't many reasons not to have one. There are certain skydiving activities that AAD's do not benefit i.e. CReW. There are AAD's coming out for the higher speed portion of the sport such as high performance landings. The speed Cypres 2 and the Swoop mode on the Argus come to mind. Even though were are a small few but it would affect the people that do vintage gear jumps. What would we do in a situation like this? There is no nice way of sticking AAD's in the vintage gear and they would be limited to mainly pin pullers and not cutters, which since they are mechanical, they can have more tendencies to fire at inappropriate times. I think AAD's should be a personal choice and not something that is forced upon us. A mandatory AAD requirement does put tight constraints on certain aspects of this sport and where do you draw the line to which activities require AADs and which don't? It is easy to say this one and that one but for instance high performance landings, sure high speeds can be achieved but would you require someone who is learning them to have an AAD? These issues start to become the issue of the dropzone and no matter what anyone likes, their dropzone their rules. This is just my $0.02 and for the record I don't jump with an AOD.

I believe this is the webpage. http://60sjumper.skydiveworld.com/start.htm Cheers, Jim

When mine broke it took a while for a reply from L&B. I would just send it back and they will send you a new one in a box. Their customer service is incredible and hard to beat. Cheers, Jim